Basic Training will be conducted by Marko Iršič, Certified Transformative Mediator, the founder of the RAKMO Institute, and the author of the books The Art of Conflict Management and Mediation.

This training program provides an understanding of the core purpose and foundational principles of transformative practice. In addition to exploring the goals and effects of transformative intervention, this training provides practice with the core transformative intervention skills. Through lecture, discussion, video illustrations, and skill building exercises, this training program grounds participants in an approach to mediation practice that is rooted in the assumption that conflict is a crisis in human interaction.

Transformative Mediation Training: Principles & Practice

Participants in this training will gain an understanding of the theory and skills necessary for the practice of transformative mediation across a wide range of conflict settings.

Specifically, participants in this training will:

Understand transformative conflict theory and the concepts of empowerment and recognition;

See the relationship between a mediator’s underlying motivations and he interventions used in practice;

Obtain the skills needed to focus on and attend to the moment-to-moment interaction of the parties and their deliberations;

Gain the capacity to take a responsive, supportive orientation that fosters party empowerment and avoids mediator directiveness

Understand the full range of conflict settings (commercial disputes, family and divorce, neighbor, victim-offender,organizational conflicts, ethno-political conflicts) where transformative mediation is currently practiced